I am somewhat new to Babel. I was successful when tried to transform some .jsx files in a directory using this mand:

babel --plugins transform-react-jsx test.js

But when I tried to transform a list of jsx files in a directory, it failed. Here is the mand and error message:

babel --plugins transform-react-jsx ../public/js/bundle/temp_realtime/ -d ../public/js/bundle/realtime

ReferenceError: Unknown plugin "transform-react-jsx" specified in "base" at 0, attempted to resolve relative to "../public/js/bundle/temp_realtime"
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:193:17
    at Array.map (native)
    at Function.normalisePlugins (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:173:20)
    at OptionManager.mergeOptions (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:271:36)
    at OptionManager.init (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:416:10)
    at File.initOptions (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:191:75)
    at new File (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:122:22)
    at Pipeline.transform (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/pipeline.js:42:16)
    at transform (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/lib/babel/util.js:53:22)
    at Objectpile (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/lib/babel/util.js:62:12)

I have no idea that why it turned out to be like this. Plugin babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx has been installed using mand:

npm install babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx 

I am somewhat new to Babel. I was successful when tried to transform some .jsx files in a directory using this mand:

babel --plugins transform-react-jsx test.js

But when I tried to transform a list of jsx files in a directory, it failed. Here is the mand and error message:

babel --plugins transform-react-jsx ../public/js/bundle/temp_realtime/ -d ../public/js/bundle/realtime

ReferenceError: Unknown plugin "transform-react-jsx" specified in "base" at 0, attempted to resolve relative to "../public/js/bundle/temp_realtime"
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:193:17
    at Array.map (native)
    at Function.normalisePlugins (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:173:20)
    at OptionManager.mergeOptions (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:271:36)
    at OptionManager.init (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:416:10)
    at File.initOptions (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:191:75)
    at new File (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:122:22)
    at Pipeline.transform (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/pipeline.js:42:16)
    at transform (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/lib/babel/util.js:53:22)
    at Object.pile (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/babel-cli/lib/babel/util.js:62:12)

I have no idea that why it turned out to be like this. Plugin babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx has been installed using mand:

npm install babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx 

• javascript
• babeljs

• 1 Where is the plugin installed? It needs to be in a parent node_modules relative to temp_realtime so since you're using .. that seems unlikely. – loganfsmyth Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 3:09
• It is installed where I called the mand, ./. But I don't want to make the directory node_modules be in the same parent directory where temp_realtime is in. – user5755288 Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 3:14
• Considering you are new to babel I would suggest to use it via Gulp so you don't have to hassle with all the mand line parameters this way. Check out Gulp and Gulp babel – E. Sundin Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 3:17
• Thanks for your remendation. I'll try it out : ) – user5755288 Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 6:09
• @E. Sundin, it doesn't work.. – user5755288 Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 6:56

1 Answer 1

It happened to me because I was accidentally using:

{
  "plugins": ["es2015", "react"]
}

when I actually meant:

{
  "presets": ["es2015", "react"]
}